Track Finishes Season behind Williams

By Halston Taylor
Team Coach

The men's track team lost its first home meet to a Division III team since
1983 last Saturday. Williams College won the regular season quadrangular
cup championship with a perfect 12-0 record by defeating MIT, Coast Guard,
and Worcester Polytech. MIT finished the season with an 11-1 record.

The final score of the meet was Williams 228, MIT 171, Coast Guard 153, and
WPI 24.

MIT had its best meet of the season, setting 28 personal records in the
losing effort. One of the most remarkable performances was turned in by
Matt Sandholm '96, who won the 55-meter dash in 6.77 seconds, missing the
freshman record by only 0.03 seconds. Jay Chiang '94 also finished in 6.74
seconds as MIT took first and second in the event and Chiang ran a personal
best.

Another exceptional effort was delivered by the leading duo in New England
Division III middle distance running, Mike Piepergerdes '93 and Ethan Crain
'95. Crain won the mile in 4 minutes, 17.10 seconds, narrowly missing
qualifying for the national championships while Piepergerdes was second
with a time of 4:18.03. Crain came back to win the 1000-meter run and
Piepergerdes returned to win the half mile in a personal best 1:58.80.

The other first place for MIT was by undefeated Matt Robinson '94, one of
the leading pole vaulters in the country, who turned in a 15 foot, 1 inch
effort in the pole vault. Other notable performances were given by Ed
Patron '95 and Marcelo Tangino '96, who finished second and third in the
500-meter run, with personal best times of 1:07.69 and 1:07.88
respectively. Andy Ugarov '95 and James Kirtley '94 finished second and
third, clearing 6-7 and 6-5 respectively in the high jump.